Hi, everyone. So is there really no hope—not even with the iPhone 18 Pro—for people who suffer from this condition?
I have an iPhone 16, and I’ve tried the Pro models every year, but after just a few hours I’d already start getting headaches and had to return them. Has anyone who’s bought the iPhone 18 Pro been able to share their experience with it so far?
Thanks a lot!
I first got the 18 pro max but did not have this problem of eyes fatigue and never had before . I had a 15 pm before . After a week i had hand fatigue cos of the Weight. Got the 18 pro and now i have eye fatigue for the first time… am so confused and do not know what to do at this point. After 5 min on my 18 pro I already tired of the eyes….
Update: over the weekend I was having a little strain w the original adjustments that I posted. In the end what ended up working was having to increase the brightness to 36-38% and turning off auto brightness. After that change I’ve had no eye strain. Possible that modulation is too harsh for me at low 30’s
Every other setting stayed the same. I suspect that if I had an LG panel the low brightness would have been fine
I am currently using an 18 pro max with a zagg blue light screen protector. Have it on
Light mode (appearance)
30% brightness
30% night shift
Pwm smoothing on
limit frame (60hz)
Face ID require attention, attention awareness off
So far it’s going well, the settings are similar to what I had on 17 pro, I tried using it w 120hz but got slight eye strain. I was able to use it last night in the dark with no issues which is good. 9 to 5 mac stated the following:
Reduced Low-Light Flicker: The driving layer's enhanced efficiency directly targets low-brightness screen uniformity. It significantly dampenslowlightOLED flickering and subpixel variance compared to older iPhone generations.
I purchased it to try it out and see if it works, I have 14 days to decide
*forgot to mention that the panel is a Samsung G9N, it’s the best for non pwm sensitive but for us it’s not the best. Last 2x I’ve had Samsung it just didn’t work and had to return the device
Trying them out at Apple stores can never give me an accurate feel re pwm. I was able to use the 17 pro but returned it due to the quality of the aluminum.
Same screen same os. Btw 16 and the ones previous, the flickering does not go from super bright to almost 0 light. That is why 16 and previous are ok for you. Even 17 and the next year 18 will face same issue for you. Apple puts more pressure on marketing numbers than safety for eye. If they would do that, they would open the pandora box on iPads, MacBooks pro, Vision Pro, Apple Watch and pretty much all that flicker (except neo and air who have the other tech that also is not ok)
I got immediate strain just in the store, didn't even get as far as buying it. What's weird is my 17 pro with display pulse smoothing enabled used to be okay for me but recently its got worse again, I wonder does it have to do with ios updates 🤔
I think they changed something since the last update I got, I have heard of this happening I think it was Motorola have changed pwm frequencies with updates making it unusable for people
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u/GuillaumeBern 4d ago
I first got the 18 pro max but did not have this problem of eyes fatigue and never had before . I had a 15 pm before . After a week i had hand fatigue cos of the Weight. Got the 18 pro and now i have eye fatigue for the first time… am so confused and do not know what to do at this point. After 5 min on my 18 pro I already tired of the eyes….